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Cyr, Bernard J.
No full textBernard J. Cyr. Private First Class, U.S. Army Infantry. 30th Infantry Division 9th Army.
5 September 1925 - 14 January 1945.
He fought in the Old Hickory Division through France, Belgium, and Holland, dying in action in Germany in the Battle of the Bulge. Trained, Fort McLellan, Alabama, and Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Boy Scout. Class of 1944, Bangor High School. Maine State Guard. Purple Heart. Presidential Citation. Combat Infantry-man.
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Walls, Max E.
No full textMax W. Walls. Private First Class, U.S. Army Infantry - 6 Armored Division.
6 July 1924 - 13 November 1944.
His life opened at Forest City, Maine. It ended somewhere in Lorraine, France, where, after eighteen months of service, he fell in action as the Super 6th attacked. Studied at Bangor High, 1940-1942. Worked as a clerk and driver. Enjoyed stamp collecting, fly-tying and fishing. Combat Infantryman Badge. Purple Heart.
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Breen, Harold
No full textHarold Breen. Private, U.S. Army. 25 September 1909 - 14 June 1943.
After two months in the Army he died of illness at the Station Hospital, Camp Blanding, Florida. In civil life he was a baker. His schools were St.John\u27s Parochial School and John Bapst High School in Bangor. Posthumously awarded Presidential Citation, having died in the service of his country.
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Clapp, Ralph Louis
No full textRalph Louis Clapp. Seaman Cook Second Class, U.S. Navy - U.S.S. LST 912.
12 May 1924 - 8 January 1945.
Killed at his post while defending his ship from enemy attack. Buried at sea. A native of Bangor. Following graduation from John Bapst High School, 1941, he went into the newspaper business. Served in the Navy two and a half years, including a year at sea in the Pacific area.
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Montgomery, Shelley Doyle
No full textShelley Doyle Montgomery. Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces - 8th Air Force.
26 October 1917 - 20 June 1944.
In the Army three years before the war. Then engaged in copper mining. Re-enlisted for action. Trained in part at Dow Field. Tail gunner of a B-24 on many bombardment and bomber combat missions. Killed in action over France. Purple Heart. Distinguished Flying Cross. Air Medal with three oak-leaf clusters.
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Strang, Garland Louis
No full textGarland Louis Strang. Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces, 8th Air Force. 16 October 1923 - 4 May 1943.
Killed in action, England, fighting as rear gunner of the Flying Fortress Hell Below. While training, visited every U.S. state. Bangor High School, 1941. Outstanding athlete: captain of Bangor\u27s first state championship football team. Remembered at Bangor High by an annual award to the leading athlete of the graduating class.
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Bangor: The Center of Maine (Three 1940s Promotional Pamphlets)
Get PDFThe annals of Bangor begin with the visit of Samuel de Champlain, who gave Mt. Desert Island its name and who founded the City of Quebec. Intrigued by the reports of a fabulous city, Norumbega, Champlain ascended the Penobscot in 1604 to find only an important Indian rendezvous and camping place where the Kenduskeag and Penobscot Rivers merge. In the story of his voyage he mentions the falls, the location of Bangor\u27s water supply, long famous as the Bangor Salmon Pool. Before founding the Mission of St. Sauveur on Mt. Desert Island, the Jesuit Fathers considered establishing themselves here because of the importance of this location among the Indians.
History gives the distinction of Bangor\u27s first settler to Jacob Buswell who, in 1769, built a log hut near the present site of St. John\u27s Catholic Church on York Street. Among the French and Indians, Bangor was known variously as Kadesquit, Conduskeag and, later, Kenduskeag. In 1776 there were some 75 persons, adults and children, resident in Kenduskeag Plantation, the settlement being in the neighborhood of Penjejawock stream, near Mount Hope Cemetery. Following the close of the Revolutionary War, more settlers arrived and with them was the first pastor, Reverend Seth Noble, a native of Westfield, Mass.
Pastor Noble was delegated to appear before the General Court of Massachusetts, of which Maine was then a part, to petition for the incorporation of the growing frontier town under the name of Sunbury. On the long journey to Boston, the clergyman solaced himself by singing his favorite hymn, Bangor, and, when the petition to the Court was made, he asked that the new town be designated Bangor instead of Sunbury. The incorporation was allowed on February 25, 1791.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1219/thumbnail.jp
Black, Philip James
No full textPhilip James Black. Private, U.S. Army Infantry 504th Parachute Infantry.
30 July 1925 - 19 March 1944.
Enlisted, paratroops, August 1942. Trained, Fort Benning, Georgia, and Camp Mackall, North Carolina. Fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Died of wounds received in battle at Carroceto, near Anzio. Educated in Hampden, Bangor and Brewer. His recreations were making model airplanes, swimming and skating. Good Conduct Medal. Purple Heart.
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Hackett, Carl Owen
No full textCarl Owen Hackett. Seaman Second Class, U.S. Navy - U.S.S. LST
15 June 1926 - 15 August 1944.
Entered the Navy, March 1944; trained at Sampson, New York and Norfolk, Virginia; and went overseas in April 1944. Landed in Normandy on D-Day. Killed in action in the invasion of Southern France. Buried at Draguignan, Var, France. Student, Derby Grammar School. Chef\u27s helper and baker. Amateur boxer. Purple Heart.
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Kelley, John Corey
No full textJohn Corey Kelley. Lieutenant Commander, U.S.Nay (sic. Navy) Air Force - U.S.S. Enterprise. 4 March 1916 - 11 November 1943.
Graduate, Bar Harbor High School and student, University of Maine, 1933. Graduate U.S. Naval Academy, 1938. Captain Navy soccer team. Served on Memphis, Aaron Ward, Enterprise. Fighter pilot at Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Midway cited, and Southwest Pacific. Killed in action, Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville. Distinguished Flying Cross. Purple Heart.
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